Never had an issue with any of the servo brand pies to be honest. When you’re on the road a heap, stopping off at some boutique bakery to buy a lamb roast pie with sprigs of rosemary and a red wine jus isn’t practical a lot of the time.

Also found the aforementioned bakeries often offer poor value in terms of extra price versus extra taste. If the thing costs an hours wage and only offers a marginal taste improvement that’s a poor return on investment.

Most bakeries seem to just be reselling the same cheap crap anyway. Just because it’s from a bakery doesn’t mean it’s from THAT bakery. Reminds me of that Mighty Car Mods road trip where they bought a pie from two towns claiming to have the best pies and it was literally the same pie.

😎^😎

Yeah, that’s me. I’ve used that nickname since Usenet days in the 90s. I got it from an old school “hacking” program called Game Wizard (an early TSR that allowed you to edit memory, mostly for infinite money / lives type cheats in games but also handy for other things that resulted in me getting kicked out of a private school) which was coded by The Crawler and Red Ninja. By their naming powers combined…!

I still open Reddit every so often, but there’s not much incentive to contribute knowing it’s just going towards making some dickhead money.

You still on board?

You live to give

I’ve never done delivery work, might be someone else you’re thinking of.

I fix stuff, and sometimes that stuff is a long way apart. Longest one day trip I’ve done is Roma and back. Longest trip in general was probably a retrofit run for units which were installed at sites in a radius from Glenn Innes to Cooktown which ended up being a little over 5000k of driving. Technically been overseas for breakdowns too (New Caledonia) but that was legitimately closer to home than Cooktown lol. Queensland is a big boy.

You can follow me in real time (which would be kinda weird tbh) --> https://www.last.fm/user/theredkrawler

I’ve tried to keep scrobbling over the years whenever I change media player / streaming service. Few big gaps where add-ons or services stopped working but generally a good idea of what goes in my ears.

Android app finally appears to work reliably too now so that’ll be the commutes covered. Considering some days I spend 4+ hours driving around between jobs (or in some cases 13+… zzz) that was a lot of earworms left out.

I am unironically quite enjoying some old Mel C (yep the one from the Spice Girls) tracks.

Actually some are from like 2020… I guess shes still floating around.

Dunno about the person I was replying to, but I was assuming they were lazy. And potentially stupid, but mostly the laziness was the critique.

“Oh no, I clicked the button and it didn’t do what I thought it would. Oh well, I give up! My time is too precious to try any sort of critical thinking. I’ll just post on reddit instead. Updoots to the left, thanks for the gold kind stranger. Dopamine boost achieved.”

I love how Whirlpool has stuck to it’s guns with regards to staying text only.

It survived a world of phpbb, avatars, and animated GIFS and is now surviving a world of social media and “engagement”. It’s like Usenet with moderation and no binaries.

Helps that it’s fast as blazes too.

TIL that expecting a tiny slither of effort from participants is “elitist”

Everyone is so angry then driving, I don’t understand it. Or maybe I’m just super chill now I’m old and they just seem angry by comparison.

Good.

I just checked on Linux (Thunderbird 128.5.2esr, Opensuse Tumbleweed) and the behaviour is the same.

If I search “PMASUP236”, it returns the email as a result.
If I search “SUP236” it does not.

This is using the normal search function (top of screen in current version). Quick Filter does not look at attachments at all by the looks. The “Attachments” toggle is only a has / does not have attachment filter.

I bet they’re not toiling on the sabbath though 😢

Yes but I can’t search by the name of the attachment.

I just searched for text thats in an attachment filename and it worked - with a caveat. I have a filename called “PMASUP236 - Operate Vehicles In The Field.pdf” on an email. There is no reference to the PMASUP236 in any other part of any email.

If I search “PMASUP236”, it returns the email as a result.
If I search “SUP236” it does not.
If I search “Operate Vehicles” it returns that email (along with a heap of others containing the word “Operate” and “Vehicles” in any order).

Admittedly this is on Windows at work, though I do run Thunderbird on Linux at home. Will have to try it there to confirm.

I need one of those 15L BIB boxes from a post mix system. We actually work on post mix systems so I can rig up my own personal Dr Pepper station here and just generally do this all day:

(Photo taken at some dodgy truckstop where I bought a “small” cup and came away with well over 1L of fizzy drink).

I’m toiling on the sabbath though :(

Stay in the US mate, we did 5 weeks there recently and I discovered Dr Pepper on tap. After 40 days of suckling at the teet of the drink recommended by your number one medical professional I am addicted. We even went to the Dr Pepper museum. I bought a hat.

Here you can only get it in cans imported from the US and after spending two months on a ship at 11ty billion degrees it tastes like a truckdrivers arsehole. There was a brief shining moment in the late 90s/early 00s when Dr Pepper was made locally with cane sugar. It came in 600ml bottles with a 1 in 3 chance of winning a freebie that you practically always got. Whenever someone gets nostalgic for the 90s that’s my reference point. That and Offspring’s Smash album being released.

I’m tempted to do the US trip again despite orange man and first lady musk for just 15 more fluid ounces of that sweet, sweet Dee Argh Pepper.

I dunno if I really trust the public to make good decisions anymore though.

Getting real sick of Mondays ruining my weekends